Friday, April 23, 2010

The Carleton Sexual Assault Support Line (via the Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Centre) has been chosen as one of the recipients of funding from PROMdemonium.

For those of you not in the know, PROMdemonium is "the radical, community-oriented, gender-bending, bike-loving, enviro-humping, queer-diggin, slow dancing, big dress wearing prom that you never had." All the proceeds go to various local community initiatives and the Support Line has been chosen as a recipient.

We are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to not only spread the word about our service but also sustain it!

So please consider throwing on some amazing prom wear and coming out to support not only the Support Line but other great community initiatives, as well.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Even though we are approaching the end of term, the Coalition wants to remind you that the Carleton Sexual Assault Support Line will be open all summer long.

We offer free, confidential peer support to any Carleton student, staff or faculty at 613-620-1030. We're open 7 days a week from 8am-midnight.

We also wanted to clarify that we are not strictly for crisis support. Although crisis intervention is something we do, we also offer support to those who are survivors of past trauma and we have a myriad of resource information for those that are seeking outside support. We are trained in anti-oppressive peer support and do not discriminate based on gender, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, ability, age, Mother Tongue or student status.

The Coalition is also continuing to lobby for a student-run, University funded sexual assault centre. Alongside Equity Services, we will be making a recommendation to the President within the next month or so.

Finally, we'd like to remind everyone that we are not affiliated with or supported by Carleton University and so all of our work is volunteer driven. We were able to start up the line with the help of an anonymous donor, but we have no sustainable funding. Therefore, we are relying on generous community donations.

About Me

The Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Centre advocates on behalf of the voices of Carleton students to develop a student-run, university-funded, sustainable, and accessible Sexual Assault Centre (SAC) on Carleton University’s campus. This proposed Centre would be available to all Carleton students, staff, and faculty regardless of gender, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, ability, age, Mother Tongue or student
status. It would provide peer support, advocacy and public awareness about sexual assault. All services would be free and confidential. The Coalition believes that such a Centre would give the Carleton community safe, accessible, and timely access to sexual assault support services on campus.